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After a routine physical, I fouhd out my cholesterol is too high. My diet is pretty healthy, and I'm not in bad shape for a 48-year-old guy. But clearly I need to do something about this. I realize this has nothing to do with computers or the Internet, but life is more than 1's and 0's. I hope you find this personal story interesting, useful, and even inspiring. 
It takes very little time for a hard drive to fill up with your entire life: financial records, tax forms, addresses and phone numbers, irreplaceable photos and videos. Not to mention important documents that you don't want to lose. You can hope and pray that your hard drive won't crash and burn before your computer becomes obsolete, but what if you're wrong? 
IF you have a laptop, sooner or later, you will need to replace the battery. Every battery degrades with use, even rechargeable ones. When your laptop battery no longer keeps a charge or the battery life is too short, there are several things you can do. 
Sometimes, something goes wrong with your Windows XP installation. It could be due to a hardware glitch, a software error, malware, a lightning strike, or who knows what else. In the worst case, Windows XP won't boot at all. Or Windows may boot up, but you keep getting ominous errors. In other cases, everything seems okay, but you can't access the Internet. 
Is Conan O'Brien really selling the Tonight Show on Craigslist? Can you make a donation to the Red Cross just by sending a text message? And will Amtrak make you march through a Full-Body Scanner before getting free wifi on the Acela train? 
If you encounter a website with an embedded Java app, and you don't have Java installed (or enabled), you'll just see an empty space where all the fun should be. Many sites will provide a helpful link to where you can download the Java runtime environment from Sun Microsystems, the developer of Java. Even cell phones commonly push Java at users. 
